Green’s Dictionary of Slang

tissuev.

alsotish[SE tissue/abbr.]

[1920s–40s] (US Und.) of a con man, to perform a practical joke where he pretends to place a large denomination bill in a woman’s stocking, promising her that if she removes it before morning it will turn into tissue paper. Inevitably she cannot wait – and invariably it is indeed tissue paper.

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